Sunday, August 02, 2015, 1:22 p.m.

Telling secrets shouldn’t be a crime

By LEONARD DOWNIE JR. WASHINGTON POST

The decade-long clandestine U.S. “war on terror” has spawned a parallel, escalating campaign to stop leaks of information about intelligence activities to the news media. During the first four years of the Obama administration, investigations of spy agency employees have proliferated. Six current or former officials have been prosecuted for unauthorized disclosures of information, more than in all previous administrations combined.